bamboobones_rory's reviews
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the style of writing is not for me. it's jagged and all over the place. it was hard to pay attention with the writing style. it might be a lack of description that makes it harder for my to latch onto any of the stories

short, emotional, creative 

The writing is very jilted and it was hard to pay attention 

Essays and antidotes from many authors

Some stunning essays on the systemic and constant framing of autistic people and people with mental illness as violent, due to behavioral differences (and in the case of these essays, being racialized) - as well as the way people take away autonomy ("no theory of mind" trope, etc. vs. "the double empathy problem") - socially, legally, and more. 

This book helped me so much in recovering from gaslighting, and trying to make sense of behaviors that I wouldn't wish on my worse enemy. This focus on this book is healing yourself, and helped me move away from trying to make sense of "why did they do that?". 

Like any self-help book about abuse, it can stir up painful emotions, so be sure to take breaks and be gentle with yourself. 

This book explores topics like taking apart green anarchism through the lens of removing the context of "political movements" and thought in European history, which shapes all kinds of "leftism", and the ways that whatever terms are used, how it can look different from a native North American perspective. Some quotes to chew on:

" The answer is that these anarchist do not expect to deal with anyone outside of their understanding of reality. They expect reality to conform to their subjective understanding of it". (pg 11)

from a quotation of Against His-Story, Against Leviathan! - Fredy Perlman: "Leviathan is turning into Narcissus, admiring its own synthetic image in its own synthetic pond, enraptured by its spectacle of itself. It is a good time for people to let go of its sanity, its masks and armors, and go mad, for they are already being ejected from its pretty polis". (pg 109)

There is a lot of talk about the tension between European tradition green anarchism and indigenous anarchism not about "how to do it" or "why" but "how to think about doing it". 

Interesting thoughts on animism needing a social structure like monotheism. 

"What do the stones want? What do we make of their insistent silence?" (pg 141)

It's a collection of essays so lots of different opinions and articles from different years. 

Ideas about the anti-future, or how the end of the world has happened for people again and again- it's not new. 

this is just a repeat of widely known ecological knowledge in the world of environmental justice and indigenous thought (and ancient Indo-european thought) but repackaged as something "new" by this guy in the language of German-style/western Europe style philosophy. it's nothing new and there are better books to read. He approaches it in terms of Western philosophy and that tradition when there's so much more to cite or reference for this. 

too YA for me

Not just theory but actual action steps and tips for organizing in community